Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 63
Then the Badger solemnly swore That, as he was an honest Indian, He would, when the need was over, Indeed return the canoe.
Who acts: Badger, need · What happens: swear, be · To what, where: That
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badger, need), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 swore | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Badger | det |
| 3 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 swore | nsubj |
| 4 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 5 swore | advmod |
| 5 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 swore | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Indian | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 Indian | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Indian | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Indian | cop |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Indian | det |
| 12 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Indian | amod |
| 13 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 swore | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 would | punct |
| 15 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 would | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 Indian | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 over | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 over | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 need | det |
| 20 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 over | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 over | cop |
| 22 | over | over | ADV | _ | 16 would | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 return | punct |
| 24 | Indeed | indeed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 return | amod |
| 25 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 would | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 canoe | det |
| 27 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 return | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past | the Badger | That | then | solemnly property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | is | past | Badger | indian property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the need | over property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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